If you are curious about words you can use this book to find out exactly what artiodactyl means, what an ectoloph is and where you can find Cantium. Within this book are over 12,800 entries, plus directions for using the roots, rules of pronunciation, guidance for constructing scientific names and general principles for changing Greek letters into their English equivalents. Additionally there are appendices listing adjectival forms of geographical names, some common terms for animals, plants and structures, activities and habitats, shapes, sizes, colors, textures, patterns, numbers, quantity, direction and location, parts of the year and chemical elements.

With over 14,500 entries, this dictionary for Vertebrate Zoology is the most comprehensive reference work of its kind available today. It combines the concise presentation of a dictionary, a brief etymology and includes the general terms one would meet from the fields of animal behaviour, biochemistry, cytology, ecology, evolution, genetics, palaeontology, physiology, systematics and zoogeography. There is comprehensive taxonomic coverage of every family, and many species that are of particular interest. Plus there are appendices giving an outline classification of the animal kingdom and providing an overview of geological time and the major events in different eras. This dictionary is the standard reference and will be invaluable to everyone with an interest in zoology.

This reference work is the most comprehensive and up to date dictionary for invertebrate zoology currently available. Entries include invertebrate anatomy, biology, reproduction and a wide-ranging taxonomic coverage of the current thirty-seven invertebrate phyla down to the level of family in most cases, including numerous subfamilies and many species that are of particular interest. Invertebrate zoology is not studied in isolation and thus the 708 text pages contain over 21,200 entries covering many terms that one would normally come across from the related fields of Anatomy, Animal Behavior, Biochemistry, Cell Structure and Function, Cytology, Earth History, Ecology, Genetics, Physiology, Palaeontology, Taxonomy and Zoogeography.

Sponges are a very ancient group and are among the most highly diverse and successful of the aquatic invertebrates, with over 8,500 described species and many more waiting to be described. This essential reference work provides a complete list of all the known species (up to the end of 2007) along with a key to their synonyms. At the front of the book there is an outline classification to guide you to the location of unfamiliar species, followed by a synopsis of the phylum.

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